- Jesca Hoop Tulip 歌詞
- Jesca Hoop
- Ada, my rarest bud from the desert valley
Your hair of fire and skin of snow Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains In search of the cure for a rampant fever Your beautys power, it plagues me now I come and scour the land for the desert flower For beauty and perfume Id stake my house and my lands The gold is sleeping in the river but the flowers in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal, Ill paint the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower Ill buy your wedding ring Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyOxen, sheep and wheat and rye Land on the north seaside Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyThe finest dresses man can buy And a pearl for to pay my bride Then with my rarest bowl to her fathers garden Like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter AdaYour heart is mine and its mine forever And she replied, 'my fate that lies on yon horizons tethered me to the sky' The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her hand and to death do us part But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyThe bed from which our sons will rise And the window where she cries Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyA net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries He reaches out and I withdraw Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw The broken petals climbing the walls Stealing my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I hear him call But I answer cooing when the night falls The cotton sword is storming the hall Cutting my vision to no sight at all I tied the tulip around her neck Like a red lead sinker And blindfold and spin around And round and round To the banks of the river and then walk My true love into the rushing water And by her long hair, bleeding red Hair-pulled my love there under until she drown For beauty and perfume Id stake my house and my lands My love is sleeping in the river but the flowers in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal Ill keep her all to me And to the river with my flower Ill hear my true love sing Your water is still in my friend Ready to drown Water, water oh water my kin Carry me out This Eine river is mercy at last Die as she laughs for Hes waiting with a doves nest My true love Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyA veil that parted oer my bride And the breath as my true love died Tulip, tulip With one word Id a-buyA veil that parted oer my bride And the blue from the bluest eye
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